The book aims to introduce students (including those with little or
no prior experience of the field) to the worlds of Shakespeare and
his theatre revealed in Hamlet. It begins by 'Approaching
Shakespeare' as utterly a man of the theatre, a professional actor
before he was a playwright and a resident dramatist who knew
intimately the actors for whom he wrote. It continues by
'Approaching Hamlet' in that light, and as a revenge tragedy
deliberately overloaded with complications. The middle chapters
look in detail at the 'Actors and Players' of the drama, starting
with the Ghost and ending with 'the best actors in the world', and
at Shakespeare's favourite 'Acts and Devices' as deployed within
it. A final chapter considers Hamlet and Twelfth Night, written and
premiered in close succession, as an unexpectedly resonant pair, a
surprisingly funny revenge tragedy and a surprisingly bleak revenge
comedy that for the first audiences would have complemented one
another. The annotated Bibliography includes the current major
editions of Hamlet, the major film-adaptations, and a selection of
both the best criticism and the most useful websites.
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